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"Harry Hope" |
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31 Oct 2005 09:23:28 AM |
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Libby puts the presidunce and his thugs on trial. |
From The New York Daily News, 10/31/05:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/360743p-307376c.html
Libby case puts W on trial
By Gloria Borger
How bad are things at the White House when the best spin on the news
is that it could have been worse - only one senior adviser got
indicted?
Or when some are breathing a sigh of relief that the President finally
got the message and withdrew the nomination of Harriet Miers?
"When every single conversation begins, 'At least the election is a
year away,' you know things are really bad," one senior House
Republican told me.
"This is as tough a time as we've ever had."
Ya think?
No doubt the President will announce a new - and eminently
conservative and confirmable - Supreme Court nominee real soon, but
will it be enough to get back on track?
Not by a long shot.
And what about the rest of the agenda?
Social Security reform?
Dead.
Immigration reform?
Dead among Republicans.
Tax cuts?
Dead among Democrats - although it gives them a nice opening to talk
about national priorities.
As in:
Wouldn't the money be better spent rebuilding New Orleans, for
example, or maybe Baghdad?
Which brings us back to Scooter Libby and the war.
No matter how the White House tries to play this, Libby was a key
architect of the administration's Iraq policy and a key believer that
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
As Cheney's go-to guy, Libby made it his job to discredit former
diplomat Joe Wilson after he charged that the administration had
"twisted" intelligence to make it seem as if Iraq had banned weapons.
Libby was not only clumsy but, according to the special prosecutor, he
lied under oath about his conversations with reporters and with people
within the White House.
Libby's fate aside, here's the problem for the White House:
The indictment brings the Iraq war front and center again.
If the Libby case goes to trial, internal administration deliberations
about the war - and weapons of mass destruction - will become Topic A.
Will it appear, for instance, that the White House was desperate to
prove that its justification for war was correct?
And will the vice president himself be asked to testify about all
this?
It's not going to be a great story line, especially to an American
public increasingly disenchanted with a war that last week marked its
2,000-dead milestone.
A recent Harris Poll showed that only 24% of Americans are confident
that the United States will be successful in Iraq.
Karl Rove escaped legal jeopardy - for now.
But with a new grand jury looking into his testimony, is he the man to
honcho the plan to save a reeling White House?
It's almost as if the lame duck George W. Bush is back where he began
in 2001 - governing by a slim margin, presiding over a divided
country.
Only it's worse.
His conservative allies have deserted him over the Miers nomination,
and his "friends" on Capitol Hill are scarce.
In fact, congressional Republicans are worried about continuing to
control the House and Senate.
As many as 80 House seats could be in play, and some incumbent
senators are in tight races.
What's more, it's tough to recruit candidates when your party looks as
if it's down a deep hole.
"If the President stays at 38% popularity," says one House Republican,
"we're going to get our teeth kicked in."
For his part, President Bush put up a good front after Libby resigned.
"We remain wholly focused on the many issues and opportunities facing
this country," he said.
"We got a job to protect the American people, and that's what we'll
continue working hard to do.... And pretty soon, I'll be naming
somebody to the Supreme Court."
Anything to change the subject.
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Sounds like things are gonna get a li'l hot for the Bush Crime Family.
Harry
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: Libby puts the presidunce and his thugs on trial. |
31 Oct 2005 11:25:43 AM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The New York Daily News, 10/31/05:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/360743p-307376c.html
Immigration reform? Dead among Republicans.
Not entirely. The Bush regime has been vieing to grant immunity
to the millions of illegals already here and he's been refusing to
assist Schwarzenegger with the inssue since the majority of the
anti-immigration groups here are overt neo-Nazi groups.
Sounds like things are gonna get a li'l hot for the Bush Crime Family.
I only wish there was a Hell for these traitors to cook in.
---
http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.rightard.org/ http://www.thedarkwind.org/
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| User: "plonk" |
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| Title: Re: Libby puts the presidunce and his thugs on trial. |
31 Oct 2005 07:08:01 PM |
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:25:43 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The New York Daily News, 10/31/05:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/360743p-307376c.html
Immigration reform? Dead among Republicans.
Not entirely. The Bush regime has been vieing to grant immunity
to the millions of illegals already here and he's been refusing to
assist Schwarzenegger with the inssue since the majority of the
anti-immigration groups here are overt neo-Nazi groups.
Let's be real here though. Neo-Nasties have always made themselves
a nuisance at the So Cal border and realize that they are
counterproductive anywhere they show up but:
The reason that the GOP is an open door illegal immigration party is
in order to woo the great numbers of Hispanic voters without concern
for the consequences or whether the new voters that they mean to
appeal to are minority racists or not. (and many Hispanics who are
defensive about adhering to the immigration laws are racist)
Sounds like things are gonna get a li'l hot for the Bush Crime Family.
I only wish there was a Hell for these traitors to cook in.
---
http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.rightard.org/ http://www.thedarkwind.org/
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The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration
Jim Lobe, who has worked as IPS' correspondent in the Washington,
D.C., bureau for most of the last 23 years, has followed the ups and
downs of neo-conservatives since the well before their rise in the
aftermath of the September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda attacks on New York and
the Pentagon, and his expertise has been recognized by major
international media, including the 'Four Corners' public affairs
programme of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australia
Broadcasting Corporation; the BBC's 'Panorama' news magazine and
the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, among others.
IPS has compiled all of Jim's stories on the neo-conservative
ascendancy that he has written for IPS over the last several years
on this website for those interested in learning more about the
neo-conservatives, their networks and remarkable success in gaining
influence over Bush's foreign policy.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/neo-cons/index.asp
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